tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post114107448171399680..comments2015-03-02T08:17:01.961-06:00Comments on AngryBlackBitch: Reflections Assisted by PBS...Pamela Merritthttps://plus.google.com/114081928830034520671noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-1141148316459684592006-02-28T11:38:00.000-06:002006-02-28T11:38:00.000-06:00Great post! As a transplant to Missouri – I found...Great post! As a transplant to Missouri – I found the whole Civil War/Confederacy obsession strange - the war is long over, pull down that flag. Racism however was something that I was familiar with. The lynching picture that you used, that most people use, is from my hometown, Marion, Indiana. You’re probably familiar with the story. Reading the book “A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America” was a powerful experience, having grown up there, and knowing some of the figures and their families involved. Just goes to show you that even in states that were clearly in the “North,” terrible things happened and continue. <BR/><BR/>We need voices like yours – keep it up!Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116459377287831263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-1141134351298940842006-02-28T07:45:00.000-06:002006-02-28T07:45:00.000-06:00Hey sis! When you have a spare moment, check out m...Hey sis! When you have a spare moment, check out my latest creation at <BR/>http://michigamuaexposed.blogspot.com<BR/>It is a budding chronicle of a protest I was involved in back in 2000 at the University of Michigan and is illustrative of the institutionalized racism that abounds. <BR/><BR/>much love! sorry I missed your b-day!CRT Law Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13650838779057255031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-1141097752657175802006-02-27T21:35:00.000-06:002006-02-27T21:35:00.000-06:00Hi ABB, did you happen to see the African-American...Hi ABB, did you happen to see the African-American Lives shows on tracing family history. I watched with my mother, it was riveting and exciting- especially at the end when they showed the results of DNA testing, linking Oprah and Whoopies and the others to specific places in Africa.Homerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174695182899799079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-1141076951283622022006-02-27T15:49:00.000-06:002006-02-27T15:49:00.000-06:00I haven't ever thought much about Missouri as a bo...I haven't ever thought much about Missouri as a border state before, and didn't know the depth of the problems there. But suddenly my great-grandfather's awful predjudaces make more sense...his family came first from Virginia, where they owned slaves, and then spent a few generations in Missouri, before finally coming to CA. When I try to talk to my grandmother about her racist beliefs, she says she can only come so far, because of who her parents were. And because her grandfather on the other side died in the civil war, fighting for the Union Cause, she blames all black people. She doesn't even think of the people who her southern ancestors enslaved as an issue to consider. Ugh. I'm turning blue in the face from talking to her about it.<BR/><BR/>Which of course makes no sense. My mother overcame her family's racism, and so did her sister, and so on. Maybe it's a combination of the family and the age in which you live. And of course the willingness has to be there. But it's painful.<BR/><BR/>My generation, I'm pleased to say, has made great strides in making my grandmother open her eyes at least a little bit...out of six grandchildren, two are lesbian, two are in interracial relationships, one is just trash (but only has children with white men, for whatever that's worth to my grandma), and one (my brother) is 'normal', meaning he married a white woman. So we're working on her.<BR/><BR/>Great post, btw. Thanks.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13157692086581512656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-1141076082028027782006-02-27T15:34:00.000-06:002006-02-27T15:34:00.000-06:00I bought that Inga Muscio book as well! Cannot wai...I bought that Inga Muscio book as well! Cannot wait to dig into it! Have so many things on my reading list, wasn't sure which I should dive into!<BR/><BR/>Perhaps if a few more readers, of either your blog or mine, could do a reading circle? <BR/><BR/>Muscio rocks, babe! Did you read, "Cunt: A Declaration of Independence?"It's Me, Maven...http://www.blogger.com/profile/00290816809756377218noreply@blogger.com